Bring On The Mortar Spam! - Rogue Tower

Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
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Outro Music: Braincooler - Mega Man X Chill Penguin Stage Remix By Rozovian - ocremix.org/remix/OCR01916
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[@Kraus-]

Looks like "bleed them dry" is a great pick because you're stacking thousands of bleed marks but the base damage cap per second is hella low.

[@TallinuTV]

Yeah. Not just bleed, but also poison and fire. Those rate limits that he never upgrades (until way later in long runs like this) seem to be why all the DOT towers have usually been so weak for him (especially when placed close to the tower).

[@maxsalmon4980]

Me, on seeing runtime: "An hour and 15 minutes? Heh, wonder how many runs he has to make in that time?" Then, much later: *slowly takes off glasses* "...my god..."

[@Super-cl7qf]

An hour and 15 minutes is how I knew it was one Super-run; If he had one half-hour run he would've ended it there, so it being so damn long means the last run of the video lasted at least 45 minutes.

[@jaidengabriel1675]

He's ... He's... How...

[@pixavier9746]

"There's more..."

[@shirothefish9688]

After 30m I was thinking "He... only played 1 round, didn't he?"

[@marcogenovesi8570]

his mortar game is solid

[@gavinbannister4124]

You've got me addicted to this game before it even came out.

[@dinodog3657]

Same here bro

[@LittleDanny9899]

Kinda the same for me thought well with him releasing a bunch of vids and me being unable to buy it i kinda got stuck watching the vids so i pretty much lost interest in buying it

[@dinodog3657]

@@LittleDanny9899 fair

[@tinyteddie631]

If you end up buying it I can give you some really OP strats to get more exp so you can mess around more late game

[@ankitgotawala]

@@tinyteddie631 do we have any links to download and play it free?

[@ZaffaPlaysGames]

I've noticed that when you have splits, you tend to try to keep each path roughly the same length as you expand. This is good for mortars and other AoE towers since it makes enemies clump up more, but there's something to be said for staggering the bad guys out a little so single-target towers don't get overwhelmed and have more chances to chip away at the bad guys, apply dots, etc. It'd also let some of the weirder towers like shredders get more opportunities to send projectiles downrange. also, the fact that i can't find the OST for this game anywhere yet is extremely upsetting. i NEED that third stage music.

[@fahlgorithm]

I was watching on a previous video and the tesla coil does do damage to every unit in its range. I think if you upgraded one it could be super useful vs shields.

[@albusvoltavern4500]

One thing is for sure. When the drum hits, it HITS.

[@JM_TheBassist]

That Snare is brutal |m|

[@Twistedcrescendo]

I do wish they had shaved the top off of that snare, ngl. Once you start hearing it, that's all you hear.

[@Yinoit]

Havent watched the full video but I still have the question of 'does Encampment work like Perma Spike from BTD or not?' Depending on the answer it might be really good actually. Edit:They work exactly like the spike factory without the Long Life Spikes or whatever they were called BUT have absurd amount of damage. Kinda cool. Still buying the game when it comes out.

[@aldencordova2541]

Just love this series, keep it going if you enjoy it please! Thanks for the amazing content!

[@Temperans]

That run was absolute bonkers. Just incredible. Also, I feel so good knowing that I was right about encampments being an excellent tool to stops enemies that run past your units.

[@Daggerboy1231]

AHHH, I cant wait for this game to come out! Some of my favorite genres are roguelikes and tower defense games. This game is both! Anyone know how much it is gonna cost yet?

[@ravishbhasin7041]

I look for videos on it everyday myself. It looks like a nice game but I figure they'll make it a budget game, unless they are planning to fine tune it further. Can't expect it to cost more than around 5-20$ They'll really have to pull out some big stuff like 100+ levels and much more varied enemies and even bigger upgrade system to get the price go further, but as we've seen with Vampire survivors...it is a era of low budget high return games with even lower price cap. Vampire slayers being 3$, it was called a great deal because honestly the gameplay can go over 10 hours easily while you are absolutely drawn in trying to survive and flushed with dopamine effect. Gaming era is changing and indie games are pushing new fronts nowadays.

[@captainwolf5922]

10 - 15$

[@JGeMcL]

I think you prioritize too much on getting the elevation bonus over good tower placement. Have your towers cover as much track as possible. Covering different sections of the track is even better as they can shoot as the mobs pass once and then again on the second pass. The ballistas on the hill before the first split would have much better coverage on the low ground with the entire loop in range instead of just that small corner.

[@ravishbhasin7041]

Honestly he has done fine, he beat the game. In his case most of the damage came from mortars so placing them in highest place was paramount. Best choice he made was upgrading existing skills rather than branching out massively and then using shredder to shred every lane so they got chopped up and softened even before they reached even remotely near the big defenses. While frost towers were literally icing on the cake, they truly game his towers ability to rain hell down. All in all great run, Great victory.

[@JGeMcL]

@@ravishbhasin7041 yeah the mortars do seem overpowered. Certainly seems feasible to do a mortars only strat with no stress.

[@ravishbhasin7041]

@@JGeMcL Mortars have both range and AOE, he just spammed alot of them and then upgraded it. I am pretty sure Majority of Damage came from that. That's the reason it worked very well. He upgraded both Ballista and Mortars. I believe this is why the damage never truly fell off.

[@Temperans]

@@ravishbhasin7041 Yep as seen by the last waves there are so many enemies that you want as much range as possible to both stack the damage and soften the enemies for the next tower. Mortars make it easier due to doing pin point AoE attacks. Based on how this run went I assume the sprayers work best when placing them as close to the spawn point as possible. The reason being that it lets the debuff stack deal more damage and it hits a lot more enemies at a time. Then placing them in a series such that there is a constant amount of damage being sprayed.

[@HaoaHaNa8513]

Can we take a moment to appreciate this game soundtrack

[@GamingStepByStep]

Man seeing this in action makes me really wanna play it, would love to check out my own meta strats

[@Ist_Melonen]

I can't unhear the saw blade noise being the deformed screaming Mario

[@musicmakermue]

bro, the soundtrack hits hard, and also, marters go BRRRR

[@richardturrell8823]

Haunted houses have to be on the same level as the Graves adjacent to them to work.

[@zarnox3071]

They were still showing numbers at the start of each round when they weren't on the same level.

[@andreicecold4379]

he knows that, he even talks about it

[@kiwiboy1999]

Definitely would love to see more of this

[@dieofdeathgames7719]

What a good run! Congrats on the victory :D

[@landrydunhm3067]

At 41:20 Nobody: When the doom music kicks in

[@GoteTBH]

Love the series wander, perfect mix of chill commentary, game-play and ROCKIN' TUNES

[@stephenboling2313]

I'm happy I've been waking up right after these vids get uploaded great way to start the day

[@ChemicalCrash]

The music in this game is so good! 😊🎵🎶🎵

[@Muskar2]

Perfect Tower is an incremental Tower Defense game that has features this one might benefit from. E.g. the ability to merge the next five waves into one

[@marcogenovesi8570]

the music is so good in this game

[@Serephinaify]

As far as I have seen the universities are useful when you find an end point for a lane, which you typically do by getting it cut off by another lane. Its hard to do but can be done. But... since the number of people able to play the game is minimal atm, there is so little data. Edit: The dev was in chat at the end and contradicted me so everything I thought was wrong. Apparently they have a chance to spawn late.

[@Muskar2]

Yeah, the dev said 3% chance to spawn in the "hell levels" which I assume is 25-45 where the lighting and music changes for the first time. According to my math that means there's a ~47% chance to see one shrine in one run: 1 - 0.97^21 = 47.252...% Not great odds, but perhaps it's a meta progression thing

[@legi0naire]

Whisky coke and this game should be a great Friday.

[@frostwaffy]

What a dream run that was!

[@Ethan13371]

High Explosive Ordinance!

[@Delta1025]

"i don't want to tire out of this game" well, 40 videos of this later... i don't think he has

[@JohnyMCness]

loving this game

[@theclimbto1]

Each type (1 Lane, 2 Lane, 3 Lane) Ends with a Boss Fight at Level 45. Shrines are little reddish squares. Universities must touch them to activate.

[@randomshadow9377]

This game is incredible

[@SilentVinyl]

That was bonkers

[@blockrock44]

Dang, very well done! Too bad we did not get to see the occult stuff yet. Hopefully that will be cool as well!

[@alarmingphoenix2204]

High ground gives them both extra range and more damage

[@metenrog]

The upgrades don’t appear in a Tangible way. You can’t see the impact that using upgrade has.

[@koldkaffe]

God! Im looking more forward to this game, than Horizon: TFW. This is a lot, in my case. :D Thanks for the videos and keep spamming the Ballistas!

[@asdadasdasda2617]

Love ur vids🔥

[@Br0ManDudeGuy]

"i dont quite like the sound effect to be honest" now i cant unhear it.

[@frankdetank9126]

You can have all the bacon.

[@IsamuKunX]

Is ‘Bleed them dry’ an active ability? Whenever you pick it it adds a little bleed icon that looks like a ‘buy tower’ button up under the tower HP. Couldn’t tell if it’s just to show the stats of the ability or it’s something you could buy/activate.

[@stevenha5344]

It's just a symbol showing how much damage per second each type of damage can do per second

[@ophilia]

Those are the Stats of the Effects (Bleed, Flame, Posion) The number indicates the amount of base dmg/s dealt to enemies affected by it

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

It would be nice if you could choose out of 3 potential path tiles when it advances, or at least if there was a mode like that

[@lmaomomenat]

Ayo man, please record more Outerverse... I really like that!! im sure more people will like it!

[@elricb1488]

The soundtrack really reminds me of the antibirth mod for the binding of Isaac.

[@elricb1488]

Specifically, the music box part.

[@spv4711]

Yo this music remind me of Doom it's like it in between of new and old Doom but toned down

[@ninjafroggie1]

I think the haunted houses gain more tax income over time with each enemy killed nearby (possibly in the same tile?), which would make it worthwhile to place some turrets near the haunted houses targeting least health so that they gain more tax income. Could be wrong, but I *think* that's what the base death tax is

[@kiefferdobson4830]

I think death tax is based on the amount of mana the haunted house used during the round and every 10ish mana is 1 death tax. The death tax is paid out resetting the haunted house to 0 at the end of the round or when you expand to a new tile.

[@ninjafroggie1]

@@kiefferdobson4830 if that were true then you wouldnt have houses next to the same number of graves paying out different amounts. You could be right about the reset-every-round thing though

[@shirothefish9688]

@@ninjafroggie1 you and @keffer Whenever he got a new tile, he'd pick up 800 immediately after he got the graves. This expanded to well over 1.1k by the end

[@Among0Shadows]

the houses aren’t working because they aren’t on the same tile level as tombstone

[@slaxblake]

Why the ballista next to the houses? some seems to be misplaced

[@danthiel8623]

Sheeeesh!

[@binnieb173]

Have you heard of Kards yet, and when do you know plan to start playing it?

[@notchomomma239]

If saw blades keep going down the lane, wouldn't it be better to put them next to your base and let them hit every enemy on the screen each shot?

[@msclrhd]

They only fire when an enemy is close, so if enemies don't get near the base then it moots their usefulness. They also have a random chance to go down different paths, so if you have a 2- or 3-way split that is short on several sides, it can limit the blade range some of the time.

[@shirothefish9688]

They have a pierce limit. Plus if they only shoot when the enemies reach your base, they'll likely fall off in damage from no upgrades

[@oldman747]

damn this game is good. cant wait to get it myself

[@dimitrisalisafakis9054]

Much better this time. You actually put towers in quite useful spots. Now next time improve your map as well, by trying to enforce spiral shape, instead of straight.

[@renegadereaper3205]

i'm assuming the map splitting is chance based?

[@NStripleseven]

Long’un today, nice

[@pockets8548]

might need to split up the priority of your balistas so they are not all targeting the same enemy so the damage is spread a bit more and they can slowly gain more experience into specialities like armor and shields for late game

[@levidotson6610]

Has anyone else noticed how similar the sound track is to the menu music in tarkov

[@wolfdeathnogames5314]

yes and i love it

[@vineheart01]

this is one reason i tend to not play TD games. They have a habit of being extremely slow waves because theyre so large or in this case have so far to move.

[@Daringtons]

I feel your mortars were missing a ton. All aiming for front of queue Edit:you fixed it

[@belac48621]

Leave it to Wander to break a game before it even gets released.

[@mydrynphillippe7530]

gg

[@corpralcobra420]

Why let enemies walk for soooooo long without dots on them?! Spread your ballista EVERYWHERE!!!

[@JorneDeSmedt]

I want to play this. Too bad it releases right after a new pokemon game.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

same day actually

[@JorneDeSmedt]

@@jacksmith-vs4ct Huh, you're right. I thought Rogue Tower was releasing in February.

[@shirothefish9688]

Yeah, big shame they released it along side a banger game Pokemon's sales are gonna be hurting this time.

[@sweren95]

MANGO

[@michaelmatter1222]

I'm the 2,000th like?!

[@amnesiacangel7212]

Lol love your vids man. But no that is not the life path of "most" people. Most non middle-class or higher ppl. which IS most ppl, are finish highschool, get a job, couple up. Usually have kids before 27 and then do what they can to support their kids.

[@orsonzastrow1604]

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